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Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.